Tokayev to attend 2020 Munich Security Conference

Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will take part in the 2020 Munich Security Conference, Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said.

"President of the Republic Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has been invited to this conference by the organizers. He has respectively accepted the invitation and will take part [in it]," the top diplomat said.

Tleuberdi underlined that he had also been invited to attend the event. "Naturally, I intend to primarily accompany the president as well as participate in it myself. We have bilateral meetings planned with my counterparts, the president also has bilateral meetings [scheduled]," TASS cited the minister as saying.

The 2020 Munich Security Conference takes place on February 14-16. Conference attendees traditionally take this opportunity to hold bilateral and multilateral contacts apart from plenary meetings and sessions at the forum.